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An English translation of Leo Tolstoy's classic epic novel about the lives of five aristocratic families in Moscow and St. Petersburg against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars of 1805 to 1814.

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Main Author: Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910
Other Authors: Pevear, Richard, 1943- (Translator), Volokhonsky, Larissa (Translator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Russian
Published: New York : Vintage Books, 2008.
Edition:1st Vintage Classics ed.
Series:Vintage classics.
Subjects:
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 > Campaigns > Russia > Fiction.
Russia > History > Alexander I, 1801-1825 > Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Epic fiction.
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Summary:An English translation of Leo Tolstoy's classic epic novel about the lives of five aristocratic families in Moscow and St. Petersburg against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars of 1805 to 1814.
Item Description:Translation of: Voĭna i mir.
Physical Description:xviii, 1273 pages ; 24 cm.
Audience:Young Adult
Young Adult
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (page [1225]- 1247) and index.
ISBN:9781400079988
9780329811822
1400079985
0329811827
Author Notes:Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was born in central Russia. After serving in the Crimean War, he retired to his estate and devoted himself to writing, farming, and raising his large family. His novels and outspoken social polemics brought him world fame.

Richard Pevear has published translations of Alain, Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Savinio, Pavel Florensky, and Henri Volohonsky, as well as two books of poetry. He has received fellowships or grants for translation from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the French Ministry of Culture. Larissa Volokhonsky was born in Leningrad. She has translated works by the prominent Orthodox theologians Alexander Schmemann and John Meyendorff into Russian.

Together, Pevear and Volokhonsky have translated Dead Souls and The Collected Stories by Nikolai Gogol, The Complete Short Novels of Chekhov , and The Brothers Karamazov , Crime and Punishment , Notes from Underground , Demons , The Idiot , and The Adolescent by Fyodor Dostoevsky. They were twice awarded the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for their version of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and for Tolstoy's Anna Karenina ), and their translation of Dostoevsky's Demons was one of three nominees for the same prize. They are married and live in France.

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